24 September ’17 — 17 June ’18

BOZAR NEXT GENERATION

2017-2018

Previously

The Italian pianist Alberto Ferro is not new to BOZAR. In January 2016, we welcomed him as prize winner of the prestigious 2015 International Busoni Competition in Bolzano, and a few months later he w...

The International Opera Academy only has eyes for one thing: preparing young talents for the professional music world. They are intensively trained by teachers with international experience in the dom...

Wies de Boevé was the first Belgian double bass player ever to study at the Orchester-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker. He also studied at Lucerne University and is a member of the Symphonieorches...

Yekwon Sunwoo, a 28-year-old Korean pianist, studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and at the Juilliard School and the Mannes School of Music in New York. Winner of numerous prizes,...

Maarten Vandenbemden’s father started giving him guitar lessons from a very young age. Later on, at the music academy in his home town of Tervuren, he would also study the piano, organ, harmony and ch...

Dmitry Shishkin is a gifted Russian pianist and composer. After giving his first piano recital at the age of 3 and first concert with orchestra at the age of 6, this native of Chelyabinsk entered th...

The Akhtamar String Quartet was formed in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 2011. The four young and enthusiastic musicians perfected their art with, amongst others, Guy Danel of the quartet of th...

In 1737 and 1738 the Hamburg composer Philipp Telemann made a journey through Europe, curious to discover what his fellow musicians in other countries were doing. This concert seeks to provide a music...

EN Doré is French for ‘golden’, and it perfectly characterises the musical diversity of this American ensemble. The Calidore String Quartet was founded in Los Angeles in 2010 and performs refined mu...

The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel is a place of education where promising young soloists from around the world are brought together to develop their talents. They are taken under the wing of eminent pr...

Croatian pianist Aljoša Jurinić was just eight years old when he started playing the piano, and his passion for the instrument grew like wildfire. He made a name for himself in 2012, when he won the Z...

The Chinese pianist Jiayan Sun originally studied at the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing before moving to America in 2006. There he continued his studies at The Juilliard School in New York. He ...

The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel offers promising young soloists from around the world a place to develop their talent, where they are trained by eminent teachers and some of the world’s leading soloi...

South Korea is an incubator for talented musicians. This Sunday we are pleased to welcome two of them. The cellist Han Bin Yoon, who studied at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, will be performing wit...

Young Belgian organist Stéphane Mottoul studied under none other than Benoît Mernier and refined his improvisational skills in Saint-Maur, Reims and Paris. He pursued his training in Stuttgart, with L...

János Palojtay is young, ambitious and bursting with talent. He was born in Budapest in 1987 and was barely five years old when he started playing the piano. At age thirteen, he was accepted by the Fr...

The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel is a place of education where promising young soloists from around the world are brought together to develop their talents. They are taken under the wing of eminent pr...

Alexandre Kantorow can always count on a good write-up from the critics, whether it be for his recitals or his albums. At just sixteen, he was invited to perform with the Sinfonia Varsovia at the Foll...

The MM Academy project was set up in 2015 by La Monnaie to give students from the eight Belgian conservatories the chance of a professional internship in an opera house chorus or orchestra. It allows ...

Only recently, back in May 2017, this young Hungarian pianist won the Montreal International Musical Competition with his performance of Bartók’s Concerto No. 3. He had already played prestigious venu...

French Trio SR9 bring us a brand new interpretation of western contemporary drums. The trio was formed in 2010 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse in Lyon. Paul, Nicolas and Alexa...

The young Trio Sōra was only founded in 2015 but has already won three first prizes and released its first CD in 2016. The musicians have been invited at the famous International Piano Festival of La ...

The Ensemble of Contemporary Music is unique in its genre. Created in 2013 within the Bellini Conservatory of Palermo, it has given itself the task of promoting contemporary music and in particular th...

The New York Times describes Russia's Vitaly Pisarenko as an “immensely gifted pianist, with a miraculous technique, boundless subtlety and astounding dedication”. He gave his first recital at the ag...

Ukrainian baritone Andrei Bondarenko was born in 1987 and, despite his tender age, has appeared at many concert halls and festivals, such as the Salzburger Festspiele, the Glyndebourne Festival, Carne...

“A poet at the piano”, said Die Welt of the upcoming young pianist, Danae Dörken. Dörken is one of the most gifted soloists of her generation. She has already won many prizes in national and internati...

BOZAR is welcoming this talented duo made up of the Belgian soprano Kelly Poukens and the South Korean pianist Somi Kim, who both have a predilection for the Lied repertoire. Both artists have numerou...

At just 25, this talented Russian violinist is already a versatile artist of incredible depth and maturity. His long list of prizes in recent years testifies to his being one of the most expressive mu...

The Byelorussian cellist Ivan Karizna was fifth laureate of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition; he also won the public prize, and rightly so, because he is a young musician with a great deal of matu...

Enthusiastic, 22-year-old trumpet player Simon Höfele has acquired a varied repertoire on his instrument, with pieces by Haydn, Hummel and Mozart, as well as Jolivet, Arutiunian and Zimmermann. He als...